[Note †:
The webmaster despairs that generations reared on
sports-broadcasting cannot even distinguish
the proper use of past tense from present tense
in
English
for events (that are) hours or days past, e.g.:
“he
catches the ball in the end-zone,
we
win the game”.
No expression of an action being the crucial
condition
that was
failed,
and no expression of the outcome
actually being a
failure:
“
had he
caught the ball
in the end-zone,
we
would have won the game”
(but he didn't, so we lost).
Sigh. So perhaps there's no one who'll be reading
the webmaster's grammatical explanations,
e.g.: about distinguishing
subjunctive
mood
from
indicative
mood.
]